Gendered Society

Name: Gendered Society
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ISBN: 9780199927463

ISBN-10: 0199927464

ISBN-13: 9780199927463

Edition: 5th 2013

Authors: Michael Kimmel

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Featuring a timely new chapter on gender and politics, the fifth edition ofThe Gendered Societyexplores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael Kimmel challenges the claim that gender is limited to women's experiences--his compelling and balanced study of gender includes both masculine and feminine perspectives.Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely exaggerated; in fact, he argues that men and women have much more in common than we think they do. Kimmel also challenges the pop psychologists who suggest that gender difference is the cause of inequality…

Book details

List price: $75.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Human Beings: An Engendered Species



Explanations of Gender



Ordained by Nature: Biology Constructs the Sexes



Spanning the World: Culture Constructs Gender Difference



"So, That Explains It": Psychoanalytic and Developmental Perspectives on Gender



The Social Construction of Gender Relations



Gendered Identities, Gendered Institutions



The Gendered Family: Biology Constructs the Sexes



The Gendered Classroom



Gender and Religion



Separate and Unequal: The Gendered World of Work



The Gender of Politics and the Politics of Gender



The Gendered Media



Gendered Interactions



Gendered Intimacies: Friendship and Love



The Gendered Body



The Gender of Violence


Epilogue: "A Degendered Society"?


Notes


Sources for Chapter Opening Art


Index